The US drone war not only continues, but accelerates. More than 5,000 have been killed since 2009 in Obama's drone attacks and still the US has no idea how many of them might be innocent civilians. In fact, the US does not even bother to target only suspected...
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Assad’s ‘Barrel Bombs’…and Ours
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 4, 2015 | Featured Articles
In 2012, just a year after President Obama decided that "Assad must go," then-State Department Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland condemned the Syrian military's use of unguided explosives in its fight against the US-sponsored insurgency. These weapons, deemed "barrel...
Hillary’s Libyan Torturers
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 4, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Remember when then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was so intent on a US attack on Libya that she disregarded the US Intelligence Community, the Pentagon, and even her colleagues in the Obama Administration to force her "humanitarian intervention"? Clinton was so...
Escalation in Syria: Obama To Airstrike Assad?
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 4, 2015 | The Liberty Report
When the latest US-trained batch of fighters were sent into Syria, many were immediately captured by al-Qaeda. So much for US training. Some of the others called for US military air support which was granted. Subsequently, President Obama announced that the US would...
Ron Paul Plays Hardball
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 4, 2015 | The Liberty Report
When are the neocons and the hawks going to stop getting us into more trouble, MSNBC's Chris Matthews asked Ron Paul during an appearance on Hardball. "Well I wish they'd look at reason and look at what is happening," replied Paul, but "I think it's unfortunately...
Marines Declare F-35 Fighter ‘Operational’
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 3, 2015 | The Liberty Report
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is, at a total cost of $1.5 trillion, the biggest military boondoggle in US history. The "next generation fighter" has been plagued with cost over-runs and serious functional problems. The fighter jet will not even have a gun until 2017....
Obama Authorizes War on Assad, Congress AWOL
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 3, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
When the first group of US-trained fighters were inserted into Syria on Friday, Washington experienced a great shock. Tasked with fighting alongside al-Qaeda's Syrian franchise, the Nusra Front, Washington's newest proxy army in Syria was expected be welcomed by the...
Warhead in Charge of US Institute of Peace
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 2, 2015 | Neocon Watch
Along with the National Endowment for Democracy, the US Institute of Peace is one of President Reagan's worst disasters. Reagan may well have wanted to create organizations to push democracy and peace, but by putting neocons in charge of both he delivered...
NED Booted from Russia, Gershman Apoplectic
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 29, 2015 | Neocon Watch
National Endowment for Democracy president-for-life Carl Gershman takes to the pages of the Washington Post today to put a positive spin on a recent Russian government decision to finally send that US government-funded regime-change organization packing. The Russian...
Obama’s Kenya Debacle Shows Folly of Interventionism
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 29, 2015 | The Liberty Report
Every time US officials try to lecture foreign leaders about what their social policies should be, resentment is created. Far from following the dictates of Washington, often the endless hectoring turns foreign leaders and citizens against the US. Even if the policies...
Breaking: Daniel McAdams on Russia Veto of MH17 Tribunal Proposal at UNSC
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 29, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Executive Director Daniel McAdams was interviewed on RT as Russia vetoed a UN resolution to set up a tribunal to look into the downing of Malaysian airlines flight MH-17. Co-drafted by Ukraine, which is one of the suspects in the crime, McAdams points out that...
US Escalation: A No-Fly Zone in Syria?
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 28, 2015 | The Liberty Report
According to recent press reports, the US and Turkey have agreed to carve out a piece of Syria for a "no-fly" zone where the Syrian government cannot bomb ISIS or the US-backed insurgents. Meanwhile, Turkey has been bombing the Kurds in the region, who are known as...
US War on Your Passport Continues
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 23, 2015 | Congress Alert
Just the other day we wrote about a US House "suspension" bill that would give the Secretary of State the authority to cancel your passport if he decided that you had "aided" an organization that he rules is terrorist. There is no definition of what "aided" means, no...
Today Congress Votes to Take Your Passport
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 21, 2015 | Congress Alert
Revolutions most often become horrific parodies as they inevitably turn inward on their own people. The former subjects of Louis XVI soon understood liberté, égalité, fraternité to in fact mean the guillotine. In the name of fighting one's enemies, the regime takes to...
The Deadly Fallacy of Good Intentions
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 21, 2015 | The Liberty Report
From "humanitarian" interventions to regulating what we put in our bodies, the "good intentions" of governments often produce the most horrific results. Today's Liberty Report looks at the worst of tyrannies -- those constructed for your own good:
NSA Spies on Enemies…And Friends!
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 20, 2015 | The Liberty Report
What are the long-term consequences of recent revelations that the NSA has for decades spied on the top leaders of the closest US allies? While neither German Chancellor Merkel nor French President Hollande have been particularly outwardly annoyed at the revelations,...
Bill Kristol on Iran Deal: ‘Its Munich!’
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 18, 2015 | Neocon Watch
Bill Kristol is the epitome of the neocon mindset: cultivating a staid and urbane image while writing the most unhinged and mendacious claptrap. In his utterly predictable denunciation of the successful Iran nuclear talks, Kristol frames the issue in the crudest...
In His Own Words: Ron Paul On His New Book, Swords into Plowshares
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 17, 2015 | The Liberty Report
On today's Liberty Report, Ron Paul sits down with co-host (and RPI Director) Daniel McAdams to explain his new book, Swords into Plowshares. Why did he write such personal book about war? What were his early memories of World War II? His grandmother's great words of...
Obama to Bibi: Want Some (More) Money?
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 17, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul has always said that US foreign policy is incredibly simple: do what we say and we will send you money; disobey and we will bomb you. While there is (fortunately) little threat of the US dropping bombs on Israel over that country's hysterical opposition to...
Torture Conspiracy: Doctors Collude With CIA
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 16, 2015 | The Liberty Report
A recent report commissioned by the American Psychological Association showed that several of its members surreptitiously assisted the Central Intelligence Agency in designing new forms of torture. Even the APA's person in charge of ethics was caught trying to...
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